1. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  2. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  3. In writing City of God, Augustine sought to demonstrate that the events of 410 were but a glimpse of all history.
  4. This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.
  5. Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error-driven out, and truth has been brought back.
  6. On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.
  7. They who are but dust and ashes, full of ten thousand sins, ungrateful, and have at all times offended Him. These are the ones God loved.
  8. Though not without his faults, Anselm of Canterbury is unquestionably one of the great theologians of the last millennium.
  9. When I hear people describe the god they don’t believe in, no longer believe in, or can’t bring themselves to believe in, I often nod in agreement. Yes, as a follower of Jesus, I do not and would not believe in that god either.
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